Structural insights into actin-binding, branching and bundling proteins

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 14-22

  Winder, Steven J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; ACTIN RELATED PROTEIN 2; ACTIN RELATED PROTEIN 3; ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ALPHA ACTIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA ACTIN; CALPONIN; F ACTIN; G ACTIN; MREB PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL SHAPE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CROSS LINKING; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CYTOSKELETON; EUKARYOTE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0037222432     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-0674(02)00002-9     Document Type: Review

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